The Dancefloor & The Look
Saturday Night Fever, the Hustle, the mirror ball, the glitter and the flares — the moves and the style that spilled disco out of the clubs and into the whole culture.
Part of Disco
13 moments in this segment.
- — The Bump and the line dances. Alongside the Hustle, dances like the Bump swept discos and living rooms alike.
- — Van McCoy — The Hustle. Van McCoy's 1975 hit named and launched the partnered line dance that swept the nation.
- — Andrea True Connection — More, More, More. A former adult-film star scored one of disco's most enduring hooks in 1976.
- — Rick Dees — Disco Duck. A novelty number one, Disco Duck showed how far the craze had saturated pop culture by 1976.
- — The mirror ball. The spinning mirror ball, scattering light across the crowd, became the single symbol of disco.
- — The disco look. Flares, sequins, platform shoes and Halston gowns — disco was as much a style as a sound.
- — You Should Be Dancing. The Bee Gees track that soundtracks Travolta's solo dance in Saturday Night Fever.
- — Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta's white suit and the Bee Gees soundtrack made the film that put disco on every screen in 1977.
- — Halston and the disco wardrobe. Halston's fluid jersey gowns dressed the Studio 54 crowd and defined disco glamour.
- — Disco on television. Variety shows and Top of the Pops filled prime time with disco dancers in glitter and lycra.
- — Donna Summer — Last Dance. Last Dance, the show-closing anthem, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
- — Thank God It's Friday. The 1978 film set in a disco gave Donna Summer's Last Dance an Oscar and captured the craze on screen.
- — Roller disco. Roller rinks across America became discos on wheels at the end of the seventies.
